Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-01-27
IN GENERAL.

supreme court, uled yesterday IN Banalo.
The boiler of a saw mill near Wishing
ton, Indians, exploded Thursday, killing
three men.
Silas Philbrick and his wife haer Just
/ died al Stevens Point, Wisconsin, from
triehinosis, caused hy Eating discussed
pork.
The residence of Egbert A. Smith of
Duncan City, Mich, was burned on
Thursday night Loss, $2S 900; inaurance,
| $8 ono.
August Boorman, having no home, was
found frozen to death in one of the streets
of Brooklyn on Wednesday week. He
was sitting on step.
The boiler of the grain elevator at New
port News, Va, burst Thursday after
noon, killing Samuel Robinson, and in
jnring four other men.
South Chicago rolling mill, at Chicago,
Thursday, five men were dangerously in
| jured and one was killed.
James Burke, employed at the Column
bia Rolling Mill, at Lancaster, Pa, fell
into the rollers Thursday afternoon and
was drawn through them twice. He died
soon after.
A vein of silver has been discovered in
GlenFidge, Essex county, New Jersey. A
load of ore was assayed and yielded about
$40 worth of silver.
The jury at Chicago in the case of
Marshall b. Allen, charged with COM
plicity in the defalcation of Col. Bolton
in the post-ofiice, Thursday brought in a
verdict of not guilty.
Mrs. Clarissa B. Raymond died yester-
day week 10 Wilton, Conn, ut the age of
l04 years and months. She leaves several
at-great-grandchildre Her husband,
Samuel, died in 1914.
The safe of the Belmont Savings Bank,
in Belmont, Massachusetts,, was robbed on
Tuesday week.-of large amount of seoul
rites of which only about 81 500 are
negotiable. A small amount of cash was
also taken.
A fve-storied double building on Canal
street, New York, occupied by the Phoenix
Furniture Company, was burned Thurs
critics were damaged. The total loss is
about $is, 900.
John Kagman, whose trunk exploded in
Pennsylvania railroad baggage car on
Tuesday night, was liberated at Pitts
burg, Thursday, the authorities being
convinced that he had no intention OF
doing any damage.
Yesterday week was the coolest of
the season in New England and Central
New York. In Massachusetts,, New Hamp-
shire, Vermont and Maine, temperatures
were reported from 14o to 40o below zero.
At Hudson, N. Y, 1872 below zero was
registered, and at points in the Mohawk
valley 2Go to So below.
The trial at New York of Pro 'essor
John De Leon, the 'astrologer," chnged
August last and sending her to Pnuama
to become an inmate of disreputable
house, Thursday resulted in verdict of
guilty. Sentence was deferred.
Captain McMickan, of the Cunard
steamer Umbria, completed his 402d
ocean voyage on Monday week, .and, as
commemorative of the fact, some friends
Thursday at New York called on the car
tain in his cabin on shipboard and pre-
sented him testimonial purse containing
$4,000.
William .. Meade, 27 years of age,
was shot dead by two unknown men
while standing in front of his fathers
store, in White Plains, N. Y, Thursday
night. After the shooting the men, who
were both young, jumped into Il sleigh
and drove off. Having mistaken their
road they returned to the village aud,
resisting arrest, we're shot dead by the
chief of police.
The building occupied by the Ceoten-
nial American Tea Company, on Vesey
street, N. Y, was burned out Thursday.
Loss, $3T,u0U, White tine fire was in
progress, Lineman Frederick Simons, of
the electric light company, climbed
pole to cut the electric wires leading into
the store. In the act he received Shock
which paralyzed him, and he fell to the
ground, striking on his head, and died in
ten minutes.
Mrs. Daniel A. Voorhees,, wife of Senator
Voorhees, lof Indiana, died Friday in
Washington, after short illness, of acute
peritonitis. She was 55 years Of age.
coal train ON the Reading railroad FRI
day morning ran into the rear car of a
freight train, near Phgnixville, and 10 cars
were wrecked. The engineer Of tho coal
train was asleep.
The sheriff at Huntingdon Pa, has issued
execution on Peter Herdic, the once famous
WilliRmsport lumber king, and will sell his
interest In the Huntingdon Water Company
on February 11th.
The house OF Calvin Bass In Kershaw
county, South Carolina, was destroyed
few days ago by an incendiary fire. Bass
wife, who was sick in bed, and her two
small children, perished In the flames.
G. NJ. Anstell, of the treasury department,
left Washington Friday for Philadelphia,
to deliver the title papers of the old post
office building recently sold TO Mr.. A. J.
Drexel for $413, 900, and to receive the pur-
chase money.
George Gibbs and Michael Dohsrty left
st. John, New Brunswick, Tuesday week, for
Partridge Island, on a shooting expedition.
Their boat was found Friday battered on
the rocks of the island, but there was no
trace Of the mon.
Forest fires have been raging near
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, |. or several days.
On Thursday a fierce galespread the flames
TO the outskirts of the town and burned two
dwellings. Several frame buildings were
blown down by the wind.
The store of Lisle h Price, at Bsebe, Ark
ansas, was robbed of $1,200 In currency
and a number of valuable papers on Thurs
day night. Two young men who slept over
the store heard the burglars and attempted
TO drive them off, but were forced up stairs
into their rooms and locked In.
A man walked Into the office of the et l.
lector of customs in New York Friday,
handed the collector a sealed envelope and
disappeared. The envelope contained S470
In bills and the following note: Enclosed
please find the sum of $470, which have
been requested TO place in yonr hands al
contribution to the Conscience Fund" No
name was signed.
A telegram from Detroit says: Informa-
tion of another of Ex-Governor r. A.
Alger's extensive benevolences has Just
leaked out through the fuel and flour
dealers who were connected with the enter
PRISE Through his private secretary and
i few trusted friends, he found 500 needy
families during the recent cold snap, and
to each OF them was sent barrel OF flour
and a ton of coal or cord OF wood. The
scenes at the delivery OF the needed gifts
were often ptiful and pathetic, many OF the
families being entirely destitute.